"Telling History vs. Making Art: "'Story' is a Central Component of 'History'"
The ability to evoke emotion easily stands out as The Civil War’s greatest strength: From its opening shot of a canon silhouetted against a fire-orange sky and the use of the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote and the haunting Appalachian violin of Jay Unger’s “Ashoken Farewell,” Burns strives first and foremost to set an emotional tone.
Even historian Leon Litwack, in all his criticism of the film as a piece of history, seemed taken with it as a piece of art....
Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.
Even historian Leon Litwack, in all his criticism of the film as a piece of history, seemed taken with it as a piece of art....
Read on, Macduff, at Emerging Civil War.